Surviving sextuplets 'doing well'

The surviving five babies of sextuplets born last week were in a stable condition and “doing well” tonight, according to a spokeswoman for the family.

Andy and Vicky Lamb, both 31, are mourning the loss of one of the two boys after he died at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford yesterday.

The remaining boy and his four sisters are now in a stable condition.

The babies, who have all been given names, each weighed under 2lb when they were born 14 weeks early on May 14.

A spokeswoman for the family said: “All the babies are stable and doing well.”

Mrs Lamb took fertility drug Clomid, which stimulates ovulation, before falling pregnant with the sextuplets. She had also taken it before first child Gracie, five, was conceived.

The babies weighed between 1lb 5oz (590g) and 1lb 15oz (885g) at birth.

Their parents, from Oxfordshire, have thanked staff at the hospital for their efforts in looking after the sextuplets, who are receiving round-the-clock intensive care and specialist nursing.

Live births of sextuplets are rare, occurring approximately once in every 4.5 million pregnancies.